Rhodes / Valdivia / Ananda-Owens / Carter / Tidwel - No Strings Attached - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Amaya Fernández Pozuelo writes of her new InchIn front of a score, the performer - as in a play of shadows - is always and unfailingly faced with difficult interpretative choices between appearance, reality and imagination. Domenico Scarlatti's language in it's simplicity and immediacy goes beyond the direct meaning of notation. What should be read according to convention for other authors, in Scarlatti's pieces a potential changeable meaning is to be sought, never exactly the same. Everything becomes more understandable if one thinks of Scarlatti as a composer who performed his sonata before noting it on paper. The development and the definitive draft have always perfectly blended the alea of improvised execution and formal completeness. The limits of notation, almost perfect for those times, lie in the performer's profound understanding of the author style and of the relationship intertwining structural rigor, stylistic-formal perfection, and free inventiveness. For this to occur, the musician-performer's intuition is to transcend and make the written signs meaningful and make them his or her own. Only in this way can the non-writable, the unsaid but thought of, the changeable meaning, emerge as well as the allusion to and participation in the vast panorama of human emotions. In my interpretation of Scarlatti sonatas and of his imitators and epigones on the album, I intended to make these hidden elements audible, palpable it's effects and affects, which are rich, varied and manifold.Inch

With the of The Queen's Favourites in 2021, La Petite Ecurie provided listeners insight into the original repertoire for the Oboe Band, which was very much in vogue at the time of Queen Anne (c. 1700). The debut album received five Diapasons in the renowned French magazine and numerous positive reviews. The International Double Reed Society described their Inchbeautiful tone, precise intonation, rhythmic vigor, and wonderful sense of style.Inch The inspiration for the latest album by La Petite Ecurie, No Strings Attached, originates from the preface of Johann Christian Schieferdecker's thirteen Musikalische Concerte, in which he expressed that InchThey were composed with such care that, in the absence of the necessary people, they could also be performed with only 4 voices, namely 3 Hautbois and 1 BassoonInch. With this sentence, Schieferdecker encapsulates the fundamental idea that strings are sometimes redundant! No Strings Attached presents music by composers from Germany (Schieferdecker & Keiser), France (Boismortier & Dornel), Italy (Vivaldi) and England (Handel & Purcell), whose compositions showcase the endless virtuosic capabilities of the Oboe Band.

An Andres Segovia Award winner (Musica en Compostela, Spain), Israeli-born Nadav Lev has earned his rightful place among today's most gifted young guitar virtuosos. For his Delos debut, Lev has assembled a fascinating and highly varied program of music by six of the finest among Israel's current, young composer crop. The music ranges from lovely vocal treatments of ancient Ladino Jewish songs (with violin) to edgy and gripping works (some including live electronics) crossing into the realm of the avant-garde. Inch... a talented and engagingly musical performer...Inch (Classical Guitar Magazine)